Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Settlement cancer


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The result was delete. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 03:43, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Settlement cancer

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This is essentially a dictionary definition of a term which may or may not merit a wiktionary entry; my concern is that it could escalate into a POV fork or become a coatrack. TheLongTone (talk) 16:46, 20 August 2015 (UTC)


 * You could also call Wikipedia a dictionary. Your concern does not bother me at all. No one knows how a Wikipedia article will develop. The subject caught the headlines of renowned media. --Qualitatis (talk) 07:55, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * You might call Wikipedia a dictioary but you would be wrong: WP:NOTDICT. It's an encyclopedia.TheLongTone (talk) 12:01, 21 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete I have found four instances of the term being used. The first is a statement from 2012, the second a quote (repeated in multiple sources) by President Abbas, and the final two are from Aug 2015 and use it as a catchphrase (though the reliability and neutrality of the papers may come under consideration). These latter sources indicate that it might be making a comeback, but there isn't any indication that this has actually become a common phrase bantered about in Palestine or Israel. Primefac (talk) 10:19, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:46, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete Everything you don't like and it spreads, can be called a cancer. That doesn't mean it becomes a term and merits its own article.
 * I see Arab villages constantly building new houses, sometimes far removed from the outskirts of the village. So why shouldn't that be called a cancer as well? I think we better steer clear of such politically loaded words as "cancer". Debresser (talk) 17:03, 26 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NEO, WP:COAT, and WP:SOAP. This is too new a phrase to be sourced well, and Wikipedia is not a soapbox for causes, which this would likely become. Three sources does not make a concept notable. FWIW, I have edited neutral articles on related topics, such as Palestinian law. Bearian (talk) 22:29, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Your badly written and badly sourced article does not really advance your credibility. --Qualitatis (talk) 09:16, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * , please keep things civil. Primefac (talk) 10:38, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - This article is terrible. That Israeli settlement building has been going on lately, that there's a lot of backlash and controversy about Palestinian rights, and that the building has gotten a large amount of coverage is true, and that information is in the article where it belongs: 'Israeli settlement'. Imagine if a Jewish fundamentalist ideologue had taken the article 'Palestinian Christians', copied a tiny part of it, rewrote it, and then created a new article called 'The Plague of Christians Defiling Our Holy Jewish Lands'. What we have here is no different. It's specially frustrating to me given that I've edited articles on related topics and have wanted to include more of the Palestinian perspective (such as expanding harassment on settlement-related checkpoints), which won't happen as long as POV-pushing articles such as this one poison things all around. CoffeeWithMarkets (talk) 10:43, 27 August 2015 (UTC)


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